Dr Rebe Taylor

Honorary Research Fellow, eScholarship Research Centre, University of Melbourne; The Coral Thomas Fellow, State Library of New South Wales

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How a quest for the past found a living present

Book Extract: In Rebe Taylor’s powerful new history of Aboriginal Tasmania, eccentric Englishman Ernest Westlake arrives in 1908 Melbourne on his quixotic hunt for man’s origins

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